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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
May. 30, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Sterin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Govindan Thirumal Thiruvengada, Bangalore, IN;
Ritesh H. Shukla, Saratoga, CA (US);
Andrew Stone, Somerville, MA (US);
Prashant Dhamdhere, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system has a virtualization software that supports execution of a virtual machine in which a container is run. A method of provisioning a data volume for the container in this computer system includes the steps of monitoring a designated virtual socket, detecting, based on the monitoring, a request from a plug-in of the container to create a data volume, and upon detecting the request, communicating the request to the virtualization software to cause the virtualization software to create the data volume.